On This Day (July 17th) Multiple Choice

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1. 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in which part of the world ?

Northern Europe ✓

Sub Saharan Africa ✓

Arabian Peninsula ✓

North Africa ✓

2. 1203 – The Fourth Crusade captures which city by assault ?

Constantinople ✓

Damascus ✓

Jerusalem ✓

Adana ✓

3. 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in which city's cathedral ?

Orleans ✓

Reims ✓

Nancy ✓

Strasbourg ✓

4. 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where which of Handel's compositions is premiered ?

Messiah ✓

Music for the Royal Fireworks ✓

Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne ✓

Water Music ✓

5. 1821: The Kingdom of Spain cedes which territory to the United States ?

Puerto Rico ✓

California ✓

Florida ✓

New Mexico ✓

6. 1902 – Willis Carrier creates the first what in Buffalo, New York ?

Air Conditioner ✓

Ice Machine ✓

Refrigerated Container ✓

Electric Fan ✓

7. 1917 – King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear which surname ?

Buckingham ✓

Windsor ✓

Tudor ✓

Sandringham ✓

8. 1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in which Russian city ?

Moscow ✓

St. Petersburg ✓

Vladivostok ✓

Yekaterinburg ✓

9. 1945 – The main three leaders of the Allied nations meet in which German city to decide the future of a defeated Germany ?

Potsdam ✓

Berlin ✓

Hannover ✓

Leipzig ✓

10. 1976 – East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of which nation ?

Malaysia ✓

Philippines ✓

Indonesia ✓

Papua New Guinea ✓

11. 1976 – The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of which country's participation ?

South Africa ✓

New Zealand ✓

Argentina ✓

Soviet Union ✓

12. 1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed to 21 from which age ?

18 ✓

25 ✓

16 ✓

20 ✓

13. 1989 – Diplomatic relations are restored between the Holy See (Vatican City) and which nation ?

Turkey ✓

Iceland ✓

South Africa ✓

Poland ✓

14. 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of which two countries after being shot down ?

Ukraine and Belarus ✓

Ukraine and Russia ✓

Russia and Georgia ✓

India and Myanmar ✓

15. 2018 – 12 new moons are discovered orbiting which planet ?

Jupiter ✓

Neptune ✓

Saturn ✓

Uranus ✓

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